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The National Youth Service Corps NYSC orientation exercise is scheduled to resume in Borno State 13 years after the three-week course was suspended over recurring attacks by Boko Haram insurgents.   The NYSC took to Twitter yesterday to notify prospective corps members deployed to the state’s second stream of the Batch ‘B’ orientation course of a change of venue.   All Prospective Corps Members PCMs deployed to Borno are to reprint their Call-up letters […]

President Bola Tinubu has guaranteed Nigerians that there would be no further increase in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit PMS popularly known as petrol, anywhere in the country.   The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale noted that the market has been deregulated and will remain so, adding that they will address the inefficiencies within the midstream and downstream petroleum subsectors to maintain […]

The Director General of, National Emergency Management Agency NEMA, Mustapha Ahmed Habib has urged Nigerians to constantly evacuate solid waste that clog drainage systems, avoid building on flood plains and move to higher grounds whenever there was an early warning of a looming flood disaster. Habib gave this warning during the handover of humanitarian relief items to the Enugu State Government, for the second batch of the onward distribution to […]

The President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria Most Rev Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji has encouraged President Bola Tinubu to discourage heads of state from the Economic Community of West African States from using military strength to subdue coup plotters in Niger Republic. Ugorji in his appeal yesterday during a pastoral visit to the Mary Mother of God Catholic Parish in Upe, Ngo Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State […]

The President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria Most Rev Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji has encouraged President Bola Tinubu to discourage heads of state from the Economic Community of West African States from using military strength to subdue coup plotters in Niger Republic. Ugorji in his appeal yesterday during a pastoral visit to the Mary Mother of God Catholic Parish in Upe, Ngo Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State […]

The Nigeria Labor Congress has debunked rumors making the rounds that it has called off the proposed nationwide protest scheduled for today, after reports had emerged online alleging that the union, after a meeting with government officials, decided to shelve the proposed protest. NLC in a statement yesterday night by its President Joe Ajaero, said it has neither reconsidered nor suspended the nationwide mass protest, urging Nigerians to ignore the […]

The President of the World Bank Ajay Banga will begin a three-day visit to Nigeria tomorrow during which he will meet with President Bola Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima. The visit is referred to as the next step of a global tour that is at the center of a mission to write a new playbook for the 78-year-old institution, with Banga set to focus his time in Nigeria on identifying […]

President Bola Tinubu has beseeched Nigerians to be patient as the framework for palliatives to remedy the effects of fuel subsidy removal was being worked out, assuring that the decision was in the best interest of the country, especially in guaranteeing future prosperity. Tinubu, who received 18 governors who served with him, Class of 1999, at the Presidential Villa, appealed for more patience from Nigerians, while the government will increase […]

President Bola Tinubu is back in Abuja after a two-day trip to Guinea Bissau for the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States, Ecowas, in Bissau. At the summit, which was Tinubu’s first meeting with the sub-regional authority he emerged as the new Ecowas Chairman after President Muhammadu Buhari who previously held the position in 2018. The […]